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  1. 59 minutes ago, Helobious said:

    Adding Encarnacion was a rare miss by cashman. The guy is fucking horrible. He couldn’t hit a beachball with a tennis racket. 

    You mean the guy who leads the league in home runs?

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  2. Still morons:

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    In a conference call with Oberlin College alumni Thursday night, Oberlin College President Carmen Twillie Ambar and Chris Canavan, president of the Oberlin College Board of Trustees, told alumni that Oberlin College will be able to manage if it is required to pay the judgment.

    “We do expect and hope that worst-case scenario won’t come to fruition, given some of the legal options we have available,” he said on the call, citing mitigation in future court hearings, damage caps “and the like.”

    Ambar said there were “very complicated and nuanced issues” involved in the protest that were “not necessarily created by this case,” and said she and college legal counsel continue to believe that legal principles were “not appropriately applied.”

    She pointed specifically to community, citizenship when it comes to students taking personal responsibility for their actions; legal issues of free speech, defamation and libel; and race.

    College officials didn’t know students planned to protest, she told the alumni. It was the Student Senate that wrote a resolution condemning Gibson’s Bakery and students who drew up a protest flyer.

    “The college did not create those documents,” Ambar said, which she said are protected by free speech.

    As dean of students, Raimondo was required by the college handbook to be at the protests to act as a liaison with police and to ensure the protest remained lawful and safe — not to inflame passions against the Gibsons despite later texts and emails show at the civil trial that contained “inappropriate” language by college officials, Ambar said.

    As for the issue of an apology, Ambar told alumni that “goes to the issue of race.” Without going into specifics, she said members of the college community have had “a variety of experiences with Gibson’s — ranging from “wonderful” to “not wonderful.”

    “Those different lived experiences are absoutely true, but they are in conflict with each other,” Ambar told the alumni. “The college didn’t issue an apology because it was hearing these different perspectives and didn’t think it should apologize for issues it didn’t create.”

     

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  3. 1 hour ago, sushihorn said:

    Yes.  They refer to "money spent" twice in that one paragraph.  They also mention future projects.  You can't depreciate something that hasn't even been built yet and usually not while it's under construction.  But if they are paying for long lead-time items that can be "money spent" which then gets turned into an asset on the balance sheet under GAAP until it's time to depreciate it.

    I'm trying to figure out how you spend money on a "future project."  Once you spend money on something, it's a project.  

  4. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Well McGarity clearly wants to speak in terms of Cash Flow Statement, while the gubmint wants an Income Statement.  The gubmint regs are here and it's GAAP like in the sense that balance sheet items are excluded from expenses.

     

    He wants a CF statement when it benefits him and not when it doesn't -- I'm sure those tuition "payments" to the university are included.  CF statements are basically always more meaningful than income statements, but regardless of which one you choose, you have to do them correctly and consistently, or they're meaningless.  

  5. 15 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

    I'm not a lawyer nor an accountant, but it appears Georgia Athletics is claiming expenses in order to avoid Title IX compliance issue based on their athletic revenue.

    If they made $xx in rev they would have to show $yy in title ix spending. However, through their fuzzy math, they are only making $zz money so $yy can be a lot less money.

    Looks to me that the EADA report has to be completed using GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles), which don't allow you to treat dividend payments, debt principle repayments, or capital expenditures as expenses.  IOW, by GAAP, UGa did make $52M in profit this year.  But that destroys the "we don't make money" narrative that the NCAA clings to, so they decided make up their own brand of accounting.  What they did is basically like me claiming that my retirement contributions, kid college fund contributions, and the new car I bought are expenses.  

    Clearly, UGa needs to hire some more 6-figure athletic administrators and buy $500 couch pillows for everyone, and charge every scholarship at the out-of-state tuition rate like UT does to get rid of that profit.  

  6. 15 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    The plaintiffs' lawyers prepared a FAQ that is pretty good.  Surprisingly free of hyperbole.

    http://www.lawlion.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/FAQs-re-Gibsons-Bakery-v.-Oberlin-College.pdf

    It would appear from that that Tita Reed, special assistant to the president of Oberlin, is lucky she didn't get her ass sued off too.  Her specialty apparently is "community relations," at which she appears to suck ass.

    And Ben Jones is the VP of Communication (lulz).  They seem like bigger idiots than Raimundo:

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  7. I saw someone on here just this week trotting out the lie that "athletic departments don't make money."   Anyone who's had even a semester of accounting knows that you can't just claim that everything you spend money on as an expense.  

     

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    ATHENS — Georgia athletic director Greg McGarity explained how UGA balanced its budget during the 2017-18 fiscal year in the wake of a national financial report that would seem to suggest otherwise.

    The EADA report — Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act — is a report sent to Congress annually that breaks down revenue in a way to reflect gender equity spending in intercollegiate athletics.

    The report, however, is not meant to be inclusive in its budget items, and that has led to some confusion and misperception that Georgia is sitting on pots of gold.

    “To read that EADA report one would think we had a $52 million profit,” McGarity said. “But that’s simply not accurate because the numbers provided in the EADA report aren’t inclusive of all of our expenses.

    “A more thorough review of our finances reflects a balanced budget.”

    The EADA accurately reported Georgia took in $176,699,894 in revenue, which included the $27 million generated from the Magill Society.

    The EADA’s report of $124,029,698 in expenses is where the math starts to get fuzzy.

    “There are three areas of expenses that are not included in the EADA report,” McGarity said. “Those would be our annual payment to the university, our debt service and the money being used for current and future projects.”

    Once those numbers are factored in, Georgia’s athletic department budget appears balanced.  (Editorial note: LIKE FUCKING MAGIC!!!)

    Payment to university ($4.5 million)

    “Our payment to the university was $4.5 million,” McGarity said. “It’s money that’s used at the discretion of the university, with a lot of it going to scholarship assistance or to endow academic professorships throughout the university.”

    Debt service ($9.9 million)

    “That’s the payment on the amount of money we owe, which is currently $105 million,” McGarity said. “

    That money is from the bonds purchased for projects prior to 2010, which included the 2009 Butts-Mehre expansion, Stegeman Coliseum renovation, and the Reed Plaza expansion on the north side of Sanford Stadium.

    “We have a payment of $9.9 million to service that debt we owe.”

    Projects ($38.2 million)

    “That’s money spent on paying for current and future projects,” McGarity said, “which includes the West End Zone expansion and renovation, as well as money being spent on golf, soccer and several other ongoing projects.”

    Georgia’s budget for the upcoming year —  $153.8 million, not including the Magill Society revenue — is bolstered in large part by a seventh home game.

     

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    Two Chase Field security guards grabbed 18-year-old Madison Aranda’s arms and guided her from right field to the visiting bullpen, through three doors and into what she later described as a cage. They sat her down on a bench. It was 9:35 on Monday night. A Maricopa County sheriff soon sat in front of her. She said he began with a question: “You know you’re going to jail, right?”

    “Yes,” Aranda answered, “now that you said that.”

    On Sunday, a 15-year-old girl had evaded Dodger Stadium security long enough to hug Cody Bellinger in the outfield, then avoided arrest. Identifying herself as Paola, she told the team-owned radio station, AM 570, that she had been reprimanded and let go.

    Aranda had seen her story on Twitter. Four hundred miles east, from her 10th row bleacher seat, she told her family she was going to be the next one to hug Bellinger. They did not take her seriously. When the Dodgers were trailing with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning, she knew it could be her last chance. She glided down the stairs, phone in hand, planning to film her feat. Then fear kicked in, and she began to plod back to her seat.

    At that moment, the Diamondbacks’ Tim Locastro stole second base. The sound of the cheering crowd emboldened her. Aranda turned back, jumped and beelined for Bellinger. She screamed his name and twice asked for a hug.

     

    He lifted his arms, a gesture she interpreted to mean, “Go ahead.” So she did, leaning in to his right shoulder. Then the guards approached and escorted her away. Aranda said the sheriff came in, verified her identity, and told her where she’d head. Before every game, the Diamondbacks announce that fans who interfere with play are subject to arrest, but Aranda was surprised to hear it would happen to her.

    “It was a ‘wow’ moment for me,” Aranda said. “I thought I would be escorted, detained, and probably charged a fine. But I didn’t think I’d go to jail. I didn’t think they would not let me speak to my family.”

    According to Aranda, a man who identified himself as the Diamondbacks’ head of security soon entered the room. He told her that she was banned from the stadium and that he would file a recommendation for all Major League Baseball venues to ban her.

    “While we cannot specifically address an individual arrest, the safety of our players and opposing players is a top priority at Chase Field,” the Diamondbacks said in a statement. “Fans are warned in advance of the consequences and we take this issue very seriously, as do all Major League teams. It is our hope that those considering breaking the law will understand that doing so will result in an arrest and the inability to return to our ballpark.”

    Aranda said she was searched, then chained at the feet and handcuffed. Officers escorted her from her cell outside into a waiting van, where she was guided into one of three cages. A man was in another, she saw. It was dark.

    At the nearby Fourth Avenue Jail, Aranda said she waited hours to be processed. According to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, she was charged on one count of criminal trespassing to the third degree and one count of disorderly conduct. At close to 3 a.m., she said, she was allowed to make a collect call to her mother. At 11:30 a.m., she was released on her own recognizance.

    She said she took a short nap on the floor but otherwise spent her 12-plus hours in jail observing her surroundings. She met friendly inmates. She also encountered several people who appeared to be on drugs, one of whom asked her to promise to never use drugs.

    “It wasn’t like the movies,” she said.

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    Mugshot of Madison Aranda provided by Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.

    Aranda is back in Los Angeles now, for a bit. She recently graduated from Roosevelt High in Boyle Heights and plans to attend Arizona State this fall. She had been in Phoenix celebrating her mother’s birthday Sunday. Her grandfather won a pack of Diamondbacks tickets at a silent auction and brought a dozen family members.

    When she told them her plan to run on the field, her grandfather joked that he would leave her in jail. Her parents were there to pick her up, and Aranda said they demonstrated more concern than anger. Her mom was most upset when she saw Aranda’s subsequent tweet, her 20-second video of the incident captioned, “It was worth it.”

    After it spread and gathered 800,000 views, Aranda deleted the video. She later re-posted it with a different caption: #ibleedblue. She remains a Dodger fan and a Bellinger fan — because of his talent, his height, and his looks, she said.

    “I’m also very fond of Corey Seager,” she said. “But shortstop is a lot farther than right field.”

    She noted Bellinger’s postgame comments, when he said he sensed she was harmless. She thought that was because she had been yelling out her love for him all night. She had hoped he’d be more enthusiastic about her trip to see him.

    “It seemed like he was like, ‘Here we go again,'” she said.

    She saw dozens of tweets and Instagram replies to her video reasoning that she must have been drunk, or that she had a mental illness. She does not, she said, and she was sober.

    “First of all, I’m 18, so there’s no way I would be able to get alcohol at the stadium,” Aranda said. “And there’s no way my family would get me alcoholic beverages anywhere.”

    She also found humor in the circumstances of her viral turn. She laughed at another incoming ASU freshman who wrote, somewhere, that she was the type of person he wanted to meet in college.

    “I can say that it was a lesson learned,” she said. “The experience was good for me because I live and I learn. I definitely don’t want to be in that position again. Not to say that I wanted to get arrested before, but I definitely do not want to go back to jail.”

    Still, she said, if that jail time was the extent of her punishment, it was worth the exhilaration of her crime. But she does not yet know the extent of her punishment. She must return to Arizona for a July 10 court date, where she could be fined. Given that, she said, it was probably not worth it — not for her, not for others.

    “The penalties are gonna get worse,” she warned. “It’s best to just stay in the stands. Your time will come.”

    On Tuesday night, another young fan ran into Chase Field’s outfield, seconds after the game ended. The boy, a minor, spent the night in a juvenile facility. His father, who followed him onto the field, was arrested and processed similarly to Aranda.

    “I’m probably to blame for that,” Aranda said.

    She saw what Justin Turner said after that game, that the trend was “ridiculous” and unsafe. On Wednesday, she went live on her Instagram account, taking questions from followers. One girl said she’d been thinking about making the jump and asked for her advice.

    “Don’t,” Aranda said. “Don’t.”

     

  9. 7 hours ago, C-Man said:

     


    Ironically, it’s 12. (It’s always 12 with those fuckers.) Back in my sports writing days, I covered my share of aggy games and know a few of those folks, mostly people in SID department or on beat from other papers. Never met the great Dave South though.

     

    I did.  Was covering a baseball game there, and about an hour or so after it was over, I finally got a writeup finished.  Was basically the last person still up in the stands.  Was walking down the stands when I heard a voice behind me that I didn't recognize.  It was Dave South.  We walked out to the lot together talking about the game.  Nice guy.  The thing that struck me is that his normal voice doesn't sound anything like his radio voice -- nowhere near as deep.  

  10. 23 minutes ago, sushihorn said:

    To be fair, those states also do a really bad job of educating Black children at the elementary and secondary levels.

    I looked shit up.  The state of Mississippi is 37% black.  12% of Ole Miss and 20% of MSU students are black, which is a big part of how they get to the top of this list.  

  11. Fuck you, Emmert:

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    According to a USA Today article, NCAA president Mark Emmert has sent a letter to the California state legislature threatening to ban California schools from postseason events if the state passes a bill that would allow college athletes to earn money for the use of their own name, image or likeness.

    Although this threat is rightfully scary to some California member colleges, it is doubtful whether the NCAA could truly enforce a postseason ban on these grounds. Banning a member college for allowing athletes compensation in compliance with state law is likely an act that would violate federal antitrust laws, as well as California's common law right to good faith and fair dealing.

    As many college sports fans already know, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has long maintained a series of bylaws that disallow college athletes from accepting "payment" for participation in their sport. The NCAA's definition of "payment," nevertheless, has changed throughout time. At present, "payment" includes not only direct sums of money provided by colleges to athletes but also the receipt of proceeds derived from the licensing of one's name, image or likeness to third-party endorsers such as Nike or Coca-Cola. This is the very right that California state law seeks to allow state athletes to control and monetize.

     

    As a private trade association, the National Collegiate Athletic Association is generally free to adopt any bylaws that it wants. But there are two important caveats to the general principle of non-interference with trade association rules. First, a trade association such as the NCAA may not enforce any bylaw that violates federal or state law. Second, a trade association must enact its bylaws in good faith, and in compliance with the "basic rudiments of due process."

    With these two caveats in mind, there is a strong argument that any attempt by the NCAA to ban California member colleges from competing in postseason events based on their compliance with state laws around names, images and likeness would violate both federal antitrust laws and state common-law rights.

     

  12. On 5/17/2019 at 11:35 AM, LTtxfan said:

    Kirby Smart, Georgia coach: "A lot of small colleges are saying, 'I'll just go recruit the portal and stop signing kids.' … We would never do that because we're not bottom feeders. I've talked to some guys at that level -- I'm not going to repeat their names. They'll say, 'We're just going to save all our scholarships. Instead of signing a 25-man class, we'll sign five of the best high school players we can and then go sign 20 out of the portal.'"

    Kirby Smart is a fucking liar.

    On 5/17/2019 at 11:35 AM, LTtxfan said:

    Berry, AFCA executive director: "The idea that [players are] walking away and we're transferring as coaches [is wrong]. We're not. Most of us are owing a $2 million [buyout] to the institution that we're leaving.".  Please don't compare transfers to millionaire coaches. That's two different types of freedoms. That buyout is usually paid for by a coach's new employer and certainly doesn't dissuade him from leaving. Market forces decide coaches' salaries. Arcane and sometimes arbitrary rules have governed uncompensated players' ability to transfer.

    And this guy needs to shut the fuck up before he says something even stupider.  

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